SHOULD ALL THE FOOTBALLERS BE ON 1/2 PAY?

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Originally Posted by shanegtr

Top level sports people are in a different boat to most of us IMHO. For starters they cant just sit on their arses while theres no games on, they still have to maintain their personal fitness so they are ready to resume games when ever that is. Weather that have a pay cut or not is up to the clubs they work for, but these are strange times indeed and your very lucky if you are not affected in any way. I think they should cope it on the chin and deal with it if they have pay cuts, many people out there have had it far worse off.

Do I think they are worth what they are paid? Well I put it in this context, if you worked in a job where you risked a personal injury that could stop your career what would you want to be paid? I think every athlete in a contact sport runs this risk every game they play. My oldest son attends a specialist sports school, and the majority of the sports teachers where athletes (in their respective fields) who got injuries in their prime and could no longer continue.

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In the majority of cases their "careers" in their chosen sport are over after a very few seasons. They fail to come up to the required standard and/or younger and better players are coming through. Few NRL players make it through from age 20 to age 30. Most don't tally up 100 games at top level. As a player you need an occupation to fall back on when you are unable to continue playing or unwanted by any club. They have 30+ years of working life ahead of them after football. Few seem to think of this. It is not just sportsmen who have their career stopped by occupational injury or disability. Plenty of tradesmen have had to close the toolbox and find some other occupation to buy the groceries.

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Originally Posted by shanegtr

Top level sports people are in a different boat to most of us IMHO. For starters they cant just sit on their arses while theres no games on, they still have to maintain their personal fitness so they are ready to resume games when ever that is. Weather that have a pay cut or not is up to the clubs they work for, but these are strange times indeed and your very lucky if you are not affected in any way. I think they should cope it on the chin and deal with it if they have pay cuts, many people out there have had it far worse off.

Do I think they are worth what they are paid? Well I put it in this context, if you worked in a job where you risked a personal injury that could stop your career what would you want to be paid? I think every athlete in a contact sport runs this risk every game they play. My oldest son attends a specialist sports school, and the majority of the sports teachers where athletes (in their respective fields) who got injuries in their prime and could no longer continue.

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Surely injury is an insurance or income protection matter? Lots of tradies, professional drivers, military, police, health workers, etc, do risk injury and even death while doing their jobs, every single working day, not just during the weekend game!

Professional sportspeople don't work under an award, ergo, workers' comp wouldn't apply. I'd imagine private insurance would be prohibitively expensive and club provided insurance limited.

The money squandered by the blazer brigade at head office is phenomenal,four hundred of them to run the game,at the cost of $180 mil
a year.The largest sport admin in the world is FIFA and they only have about 100,so you can see where the players are coming from in giving up some of their loot.Seems head office is bloody useless.
Given the amount of time a footballer pops up in the news for domestic violence,drugs, drink driving,sexual assault etc I tend to believe that the only thing they are told by the supposed administration is ,The bloke in da white is d wef ,ya don't hit the wef.

One of the truths the Corona virus has highlighted is that footballers and celebrities are not essential services.

Watching fox sports, 1981 semi final, Newtown Vs Manly. Tommy Raudonikus, Terry Randall, Phil Gould, Eadie , Sigsworth, etc. First scrum the all in brawl started. Tommy in the middle of it. BRING BACK THE BIFF!! The fox commentators are doing a dummy broadcast. Very entertaining, I'd forgotten how rough it was. Really enjoying this. And REAL scrums! you beauty. EDIT. Obviously their coaches have told them the other side can't run without their heads. [biggrin]

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Originally Posted by DiscoMick

One of the truths the Corona virus has highlighted is that footballers and celebrities are not essential services.

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no one every said they were.

but people are allowed to spend their money on what they want

People do go to see a game or movie because of the players or actors involved, so they are worth the money from that point of view, unlike CEO's, no one goes into a bank or buys a product wanting to know who the CEO is, so it is hard to justify what they are paid.